Tag: FARMING
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Healy-Rae cute hoor-ism cods nobody but themselves
Earlier this week in the Irish Independent, Fionnan Sheehan – who I would have always counted as ridiculously anti Fianna Fail (at best) recounted a tale which Bertie Ahern told me himself at a wedding many moons ago now. It related to a time when the late, great Jackie Healy-Rae was supporting an FF led…
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Greek Farmers take to the roads
My brother is currently living in Greece and recently sent me the above footage of Greek farmers blockading traffic in protest at the same economic realities which have forced their Irish counterparts and hauliers to engage in similar protest activities. As an aside, seeing all the old Deutz DX Series tractors stirred an emotional volcano…
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Experimental Royals to tackle Mourne men
Meath senior hurling manager Johnny Greville has announced a side containing a mixture of experimentation and experience for tomorrow’s season opening encounter with Down in the Dioralyte Kehoe Cup at Dunganny. Philip O’Brien of St Patrick’s gets a rare start in goal, Conor and Mark Leavey both from Dunderry get starting berths as does Trim’s…
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Breakthroughs, consolidation and a great pity
Sometimes, how you get there doesn’t matter as long as you reach the intended destination. For example, Irish soccer fans would gladly have put up with the snore fest scoreless draw against Egypt in order to secure safe passage to the knockout stages of the 1990 World Cup. Likewise, those Meath supporters who braved the…
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You don’t need to be a Minister to know Mercosur is dangerous business
To my utmost heartache and no little shame, I haven’t read the Irish Farmers Journal in a ridiculous length of time. In all honesty, the main reasoning for such being the case is out of a feeling and/or realisation that to do so would leave one more upset than is already the case. Yet, as…
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Two sides to every story on day of Royal drama
What a day. What was supposed to be a ten minute eye screening morphed into a four and a half hour A & E pitstop. Now read on… That, in turn, meant playing catch up on the day’s sport. To a certain extent, that goal was achieved. In that one made it back to HQ…
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Hay 2025
Justin Walsh and Tommy Feryck baling a decent crop of hay in the late evening sun. On duty were a John Deere 64150 with a Claas Liner 2600 Rake and a Hurlimann 165.7 with a McHale F550 Baler
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Change of venue for Leinster Final
As if the high drama on the pitch involving Meath teams over the past week or so wasn’t enough, things took another twist prior to the Royal County’s meeting with Louth in tomorrow (Wednesday) evening’s Leinster U-20 FC Final – of course they did – with the revelation that the showdown for the Seamus Flood…
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Davy Russell Bereaved
Mr Jeremiah (Jerry) Russell, father of three time Irish National Hunt champion jockey, Davy, passed away over the weekend. He was 85. The deceased ran a farm and a garage business in his native Youghal, Co Cork and was an avid supporter of the pony racing, point-to-point and racing under rules scene. All the routes…
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Trying to convince myself to never say never
In the summer of 2015, my brother gave a local farmer a dig out for about two months in total actually. From the time they started the spring ploughing and sowing until the first cut silage and hay was all done. Some 23 years after they had originally parted ways. For me, this was as…